(baseball) Preparing to have or having one's turn to attempt to hit the ball.

(baseball) The speed of the bat during a swing.

(intransitive, baseball) To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.

The catching of small birds at night by lighting a fire near their roost, then scaring them awake whereupon they fly towards the flames and can be caught in nets on poles.

A person who catches birds by the method of bat-fowling.

A long instrument, typically wood, metal, or plastic, which is swung to strike baseballs.

(simile) Nearly totally blind, having a very poor sense of vision

(baseball) A specially designed small-diameter bat used to hit fly balls for fielding practice.

(transitive) To initiate (someone) in a bat mitzvah ceremony.

(Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl. / (Judaism) A girl who has come of age.